GHDB (a.k.a. Google Hacking Database) is HTML/JavaScript wrapper application that uses advance JavaScript techniques to scrape information from Johnny’s Google Hacking Database without the need for hosted server side scripts. Here is what I need to say about this application:

In attempt to show the real dangers of AJAX APIs I’ve created completely harmless interface to Johnny’s Google Hacking Database. Keep in mind that no service side scripts are required from my side. Also, keep in mind that all I am providing here is a single HTML page with a few JavaScript files to glue the interface together. Read More...

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Hands up who hates buying batteries. (I had both hands up in the air by the way, briefly, but had to put them down to continue writing this article). Anyway, batteries are the bane of my life. It seems almost every toy we have for our children or gadget for ourselves require batteries. And they need them in all shapes and sizes. The worst offenders are those button-cell batteries. Small and costly...until I saw the coolest video.

Kipkay over at Metacafe has done it again, with a life hack and battery hack that will save you roughly $40 on those 1.5V button cell batteries. All you need is a 2-pack of 12V A23 batteries, which retail at less than $2 a pack. I found my set on Amazon for $1.66.

As the video shows, you simply split them open to reveal EIGHT 1.5V button-cell batteries, each one worth around $5. And as these 12V batteries come in pairs that gives you a grand total of 16 new batteries worth around $80. Not bad for an initial investment of $1.66. Read More...

That's the so-called "Processing Key" that unlocks the heart of every HD-DVD disk to date.

The copy protection technology used by Blu-ray discs has been cracked by the same hacker who broke the DRM technology of rival HD DVD discs last month. The coder known as muslix64 used much the same plain text attack in both cases. By reading a key held in memory by a player playing a HD DVD disc he was able to decrypt the movie been played and render it as an MPEG 2 file.

The latest Blu-ray hack was performed by muslix64 using a media file provided by Janvitos, through the video resource site Doom9, and applied to a Blu-ray copy of the movie Lord of War. In this case, muslix64 didn't even need access to a Blu-ray player to nobble the DRM protection included on the title.
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Both HD DVD and Blu-ray use HDCP (High-Bandwidth Digital Content Protection) for playback display authentication and similar implementations of AACS (Advanced Access Content System) for content encryption.

The hack sidesteps, rather than defeats, the AACS encryption used as part of the content protection technology used by both next-generation DVD formats. The approach relies on obtaining a particular movie's unique "key" and can't therefore be trivially replicated to rip content across all titles encoded via a particular format, as tools like DVD Decryptor make easy with standard DVD titles.

muslix64 has however posted a 18KB tool that allows other to try their hand at extracting the keys of other Blu-ray Disc movies

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Alec Bennet created this Simon hack with jogging trampolines and revamped it for the recent Make Magazine "Maker's Fair" click the pic for more. Read More...

You think your WEP Protected wireless base station is secure? sorry... click the pic for a video tutorial Read More...

We put a lot of trust in our plastic, we shouldn't. Here is an excellent soldering tutorial for people interested in hacking magnetic stripe cards. Read More...

I love that there are now organized social groups of people who pick locks. They are starting local chapters in the US!

click the pick to visit their site. Read More...